Grant Morrison

Supergods

Our World in the Age of the Superhero

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Produktbeschreibung

The mind-bending history of superheroes by comics legend Grant Morrison.

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For Grant Morrison, possibly the greatest of contemporary superhero storytellers, these heroes are not simply characters but powerful archetypes whose ongoing story arcs reflect and predict the lives we live.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 634044
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780099546672
• ISBN-10: 0099546671
• Artikelnr.: 35202961

Autorenporträt

Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1960. As a comics writer, he is renowned for his bold reinventions of existing superheroes and his own authored titles. He has had successful runs on Batman, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four and All Star Superman His Batman: Arkham Asylum is the best-selling original graphic novel ever published. A documentary on his life and work, Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, was released in November 2010.

Rezensionen

Supergods is a rather astonishing piece of work that leaves you feeling pretty much as those first readers of Superman in 1938 must have felt: slightly more aware of our place in the universe and cautiously optimistic about the future Independent on Sunday